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Choosing a futures broker: 1) CLEARING FIRM 2) ALL-IN COMMISSION FOR THE INSTRUMENTS -YOU- TRADE. 3) AVAILABILITY OF -YOUR- NEEDED/WANTED PLATFORM 4) DOES -YOUR- BROKER/REP HAVE MORE THAN A WEEK OR TWO OF EXPERIENCE. You on the other hand, must first decide what platform you want to...

Another option is to strip the ECNs of their dignity and consider the venues OTC. Off exchange unregulated trading with no NBBO or any other price, size, or clearing rules and regulations. Unrecognized unreported trades.

Since traversed to restaurants, this ditty tonight from Drudge: Feds’ push to seize restaurant http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/25/feds-push-to-seize-restaurant-a-rare-one/

Even MORE JUICY In addition to New Century Bank, MB Financial also assumed all the deposits and purchased all the assets of Broadway Bank: Assets: 1.2 Billion Deposits: 1.1 Billion Loss-share on 878.4 million (87% of assets) Cost to DIF: 394.3 million MB Financial got a two-fer THIS...

You brainiacs should look at the actual bank failure press releases and be sure to look up and understand the term "loss-share". The street will be UNABLE to ignore much longer. My favorite THIS week is the small and innocuous New Century Bank (deposits assumed and all assets purchased by...

Maybe not suspicious, but under a socialist health-care plan, one of the 100plus bureaucracies could very easily consider these transactions as non-conformist, possibly even extremist! Oh yes, they are watching.

A change in Money Market rules occured at the beginning of February 2010. Specifically, "Suspension of Redemption". The link is a recap of the adopted SEC rule changes http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/article.asp?articleid=93336 Money Market Funds = Suspension of redemption Citi =...

That suggests WMT nailed "expected" sales, nothing "way stronger" about it. Having little inventory on Xmas eve within the fickle xmas nucleus category of toys is a retailers xmas wish! And what the hell is the "MasterCard Advisors unit SpendingPulse?" I don't ever recall hearing from or...

He knew you were long one XW and was being sympathetic.

It wasn't a good call for a trade. Review that buy when gold hits 1600 or so within the next 12 months. 1600 may not even be a good exit point. ;) Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves. -- Norm Franz...

WOW! You drank a full pitcher of Koolaid. WOW!

First, you never acquire wealth or become rich merely keeping pace with inflation. More important to most however, standard of living and-or way of life becomes stagnant. Stuck, with no way out. Second, you assume your lifestyle EXACTLY matches the lifestyle-basis of COLA. I'll bet you...

Oh yes it will. Especially if it occurs swiftly and across the board. All those dollars enter the economy. Plus the stimulus dollars waiting to be deployed plus the stimulus dollars that are "allocated" but not yet deployed. I don't think the grand plan calls for truly quantifiable inflation to...

Depends on what TV network you watch. Christina Romer, 12/13/09, Meet the Press with David Gregory http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34403589#34403589 Larry Summers, 12/13/09, This Week with George Stephanopolous...

And a clawback of Tiger's wealth will subsidize Nike golf balls for all municipal course players, nationwide. And ralphie is correct: The recession ended in June. He just failed to complete the sentence; and the depression began.